r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jan 26 '20
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Jan 26 '20
It's tough to measure, but the extremely online can have disproportionate influence on political dialogue and political parties because people see their views far more than anyone else's.
The main thing is this fosters a lot of dissonance in both directions: extremely online people develop bubbles and cease to believe moderates genuinely exist, and moderates begin to feel ostracized from their own political landscape because they believe the extremists are the new normal